Yahoo wants you to know that it values your privacy as much as – or possibly more than – Google. Yesterday, the Mountain View-based giant got a bit of a head start in terms of describing a hearing titled “Behavioral Advertising: Industry Practices and Consumer Expectations,” but Sunnyvale has now published its take. Anne Toth, Vice President of Policy and Head of Privacy at Yahoo, testified in …

Google users are seeing more ads across the Web giant’s vast empire. With the economy weakening, the Mountain View company has turned on a spigot of sales pitches in areas once devoid of them. On other properties, it has increased their number and frequency….

Google Inc.’s stock, once a Wall Street standout, performed like the rest of the crowd this year – horribly. After starting 2008 near $700, the Mountain View Internet giant’s shares closed Wednesday at $302.95, a 57 percent decline. It’s a major reversal from…

Google, it seems, is finally publicly acknowledging what we’ve all know for some time: AOL just ain’t what it used to be. Among the interesting little tidbits in the search giant’s recently filed quarterly earning report, the Mountain View company noted that the five-percent of AOL may “be impaired,” accountant speak for a drop in value.